"Hilaire Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (; ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. Belloc"
"(an international leader in sustainable development and public health), former Interior Minister of France Pierre Joxe, president of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams (a Teachta Dála in Dáil Éireann), and British diplomat Jonathan Powell, who served as the first Downing Street Chief of Staff. They all signed a final declaration that was supported also by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, the former US President and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, and the former US senator and former US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George J. Mitchell. The meeting did not include Spanish or French government representatives. The"
"Hall, in Powys, Wales. William Hague William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, (born 26 March 1961) is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire, as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1989 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and was the Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015. Hague was educated at Wath Comprehensive School, the University of Oxford and INSEAD, subsequently being returned to the House of Commons at a"
"Benn (1928–2017), a specialist in Russia and Eastern Europe, worked for the BBC's External Services for many years. A fourth son, Jeremy, was still-born. William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate Air Commodore William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, DSO, DFC, PC (10 May 1877 – 17 November 1960) was a British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. A decorated Royal Air Force officer, he was Secretary of State for India between 1929 and 1931 and Secretary of State for Air between 1945 and 1946. He was the father of Tony Benn and the grandfather of Hilary Benn. Born"
"Hilary Benn Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (born 26 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central since the by-election in 1999. He served in the cabinet from 2003 to 2010, under the premierships of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. From 2010 to 2016, he served in various Labour Party shadow cabinets, most recently as Shadow Foreign Secretary from May 2015 until June 2016, when he was dismissed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. In October 2016, he was elected as the Chair of the new Exiting the European Union"
"his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaime Bermúdez, Yigal Allon, a deputy and acting Prime Minister of Israel, former Vice President of the European Commission and current Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Olli Rehn, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag, the former Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood, former EU Commissioner Jean Dondelinger, the Canadian politician John Godfrey, and Gary Hart, a former US Senator and presidential candidate. Diplomats Joseph A. Presel, Gustavo Bell and Shlomo Ben-Ami are also Antonians. Furthermore, Minouche Shafik, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and former managing director of the International Monetary"
"include many notable academics, politicians and scientists. Among those are two World Bank presidents, various gender and queer studies scholars, and a number of neoconservative scholars and politicians who co-resided in the Telluride House with House Faculty Fellow Allan Bloom in the 1960s. Notable residents include theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson, British Jamaican artist and art historian Petrine Archer-Straw, classicist Martin Bernal, physicist Carl M. Bender, philosopher and classicist Allan Bloom, Nobel laureate in Physics Sir William Lawrence Bragg who resided in the house as a visiting professor, former United States Congressman and President of the World Bank Barber Conable,"
"William Hague William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, (born 26 March 1961) is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire, as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1989 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and was the Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015. Hague was educated at Wath Comprehensive School, the University of Oxford and INSEAD, subsequently being returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1989. Hague"
"over by Andris Piebalgs, László Andor, Johannes Hahn, José Manuel Barroso, Michel Barnier and Siim Kallas, respectively. After the elections and parliament's promulgation on 1 July 2014, Lewandowski, Reding, Rehn and Tajani took up their seats as MEPs and were each replaced by the same commissioners as when they were on leave (Piebalgs, Hahn, Kallas and Barnier, respectively). Karel De Gucht took neither electoral leave nor his eventual seat. The Secretary-General for this term was Catherine Day, appointed in 2005. She was the first woman to hold the post and took over from David O'Sullivan. Early favourite François Lamoureux, previously"
"Thijs Berman, former Secretary General of NATO Joseph Luns, Senate group leader of the Labour Party and former trade union leader Marleen Barth, president of OHIM Wubbo de Boer, former Minister of Defence and former European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services Frits Bolkestein, former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Els Borst, state secretary of Health, Welfare and Sport Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Jacqueline Cramer, Minister of Foreign Trade within the Economic Affairs Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Justice Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Guusje ter Horst, former Minister"
"George Holland Sabine, gender and queer studies theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American anthropologist Clare Selgin Wolfowitz, political scientist Stephen Sestanovich, political scientist Abram Shulsky, political theorist Joseph M. Schwartz, literary theorist and postcolonial and gender studies scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, lawyer, legal scholar and former Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan, Czech economist and politician Jan Švejnar, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics Steven Weinberg, Former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, World Bank president, diplomat and academic Paul Wolfowitz, journalist and writer William T. Vollmann, and biophysicist and virologist Robley C. Williams. The Telluride House has been"
"Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, France) - Bertrand Badré (then Director-General and Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank Group) - Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) - Ehud Barak (Former Prime Minister of Israel) - Sébastien Bazin (Chairman and CEO, AccorHotels) - Marek Belka (President of the National Bank of Poland) - Charles-Edouard Bouée (CEO, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants) - Nasser Bourita (Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) - Ana Brnabić (Prime Minister of Serbia) - Christian Bréchot (President of the Pasteur Institute) - Didier Burkhalter (Federal Councilor, Chief of the federal Department of Foreign"
"Terence Burns, Baron Burns Terence Burns, Baron Burns, GCB (born 13 March 1944, Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham), sometimes known as Terry Burns, is a British economist, made a life peer in 1998 for his services as former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury. He is currently Senior adviser to Santander UK, Non-Executive Chairman of Glas Cymru, and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson Group plc. He is also President of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, President of the Society of Business Economists, Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music, and Chairman of"
"Ireland), Gro Harlem Brundtland (international leader in sustainable development and public health, former Prime Minister of Norway), Pierre Joxe (former Interior Minister of France), Gerry Adams (president of Sinn Féin, member of the Irish Parliament) and Jonathan Powell (British diplomat who served as the first Downing Street Chief of Staff). Tony Blair — former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — could not be present due to commitments in the Middle East, but he supported the final declaration. The former US President Jimmy Carter (2002 Nobel Peace Prize) and the former US senator George J. Mitchell (former United States Special"
"United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, football managers Sir Alex Ferguson and Brendan Rodgers, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O'Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politicians John Hume and Garret FitzGerald, politician, writer and historian Conor Cruise O'Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, gaelic footballer Peter Canavan, rugby"
"2018- The office of Honorary President was established in 1925. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Borden, 1925–38; The Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir 1938–39; George M. Wrong, 1943–48; Charles W. Colby, 1948–55; J. B. Tyrrell, 1956–57; Sir Edward Peacock, 1958–62; W. Stewart Wallace, 1963–70; W. Kaye Lamb, 1971–99; John Warkentin, 2000—. The office of Honorary Vice-President was established in 1964. D. C. Harvey, 1964–66; Msgr. Joseph Thomas Arthur Maheux, 1964–67; Sir Campbell Stuart, 1964–72; Harold C. Walker, 1968–69; The Honourable Leslie Frost, 1969–73; Miss Julia Jarvis, 1971–89; D. G. Creighton, 1973–79; Colonel C. P. Stacey, 1974–90; John M. Gray, 1976–78; W."
"gone on to hold elected office. A small selection of prominent former members is listed below. This is not a comprehensive list. 2018 — Carl Qiu 2016 — Kinsey Schurm 2015 — Zack Goldford 2013 — Alanna Newman 2012 — Clare Schulte-Albert 2011 — Grant Dingwall 2010 — Beth Corbett 2009 — Brayden Akers 2008 — Andrew Brander 2007 — Michael Wilson 2005 — Leslie Morrison 2003 — Patrick Harris 2001 — Dave Forestell 1996 — Walied Soliman 1992 — Mike Heenan 1991 — Joe Kondrat 1990 — John Capobianco 1988 — John Baird 1986 — Allan Williams 1982 —"
"the 1998 Birthday Honours, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burns, of Pitshanger in the London Borough of Ealing. He sits as a crossbencher. He holds honorary doctorates and professorships from five British universities. Terence Burns, Baron Burns Terence Burns, Baron Burns, GCB (born 13 March 1944, Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham), sometimes known as Terry Burns, is a British economist, made a life peer in 1998 for his services as former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury. He is currently Senior adviser to Santander UK, Non-Executive Chairman of Glas Cymru, and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson"
"Chairman from 2011-2013. She has been a non-executive director on the board of Alcatel-Lucent, and is non-executive director of St-Gobain, Lazard and Casino Group. She is Chairman of the Pilgrim Trust and has been a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust and Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme. Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme Michael Hastings Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme (born 19 June 1946) is a British politician and former diplomat. He sits as a Crossbench member of the House of Lords, and previously served as Ambassador to France and Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Jay was"
"Concurrently with his judicial duties, from 2012 to 2017 he served as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was Chair of the Council of Australasian Tribunals (COAT) from 2014 to 2017. He is one of six former federal politicians to have served on the Federal Court, along with Robert Ellicott, Nigel Bowen, Tony Whitlam, Merv Everett and John Reeves. On 23 August 2011 Kerr was conferred with the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the Ambassador of France, his Excellency M. Michel Filhol for defending values dear to France and for his role as Parliamentary Secretary"
"the law, Thomas Bingham was the Senior Law Lord of the United Kingdom, while Brian Hutton and Alan Rodger have held equivalent positions in Northern Ireland and Scotland, at one point, all three simultaneously. Cressida Dick is the current Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police Service and the first woman to hold this role. Literary figures include John Minford, Robert Southey, David Aaronovitch, Christopher Hitchens, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Arthur Hugh Clough, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox, Graham Greene, Joseph Macleod, G. F. Bradby, Anthony Powell, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hollis, Robertson Davies, Nevil Shute, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Gwyneth Lewis."
"the British Empire (DBE) ""for services to education and culture in Wales"", and thereby granted the title ""dame"". Hilary Boulding Dame Hilary Boulding, (born 25 January 1957) is a British academic administrator and former media professional. Since 2017, she has been the President of Trinity College, University of Oxford. She formerly worked for the BBC and served as Principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Boulding was born on 25 January 1957. She was educated at Heaton School, a state school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. She studied music at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of"
"had diminished the public opinion of politicians. There were few honours for people from the financial services sector either, after controversy over high bonus payments despite the financial crisis. (One notable exception was Dyfrig John, a former deputy chairman/chief executive of HSBC, a bank which did not require a taxpayer bail-out. Dyfrig John was named CBE.) The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by the country whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour, with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander ""etc."" and then if appropriate,"
"and Pensions. Sara Weller Sara Vivienne Weller (born August 1961), is a British businesswoman, and a non-executive director at Lloyds Banking Group and United Utilities, and was the CEO of the retail chain Argos from 2004 to 2011. In 2015, she was appointed a CBE for public service. She has been a non-executive director of Lloyds Bank since February 2012, and chairs the Responsible Business Committee. She has chaired the Remuneration Committee at United Utilities since July 2012, and is a member of Council at Cambridge University. As of April 2017, she is the lead non-executive director of the Department"
"They joined the existing vice-presidents: John Sentamu (Archbishop of York), Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster), Barry Morgan (Archbishop of Wales), David F. Ford (Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge), Joel Edwards (International Director of Micah Challenge) and Lord Alton of Liverpool. Following the time when he bade farewell to his role as Hercule Poirot, Suchet fulfilled a 27-year ambition to make an audio recording of The Bible's New International Version, which was released on 24 April 2014. In August 2014, Suchet was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ""The Guardian"" expressing their hope that"
"may be, and have been, elected. Moreover, although most academicians are writers, one need not be a member of the literary profession to become a member. The Académie has included numerous politicians, lawyers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and senior Roman Catholic clergymen. Five French heads of state have been members (Adolphe Thiers, Raymond Poincaré, Paul Deschanel, Philippe Pétain, and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing) and one foreign head of state (the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, who was also the first African elected, in 1983). Other famous members include Voltaire; Charles, baron de Montesquieu; Victor Hugo; Alexandre Dumas, fils; Émile Littré; Louis"
"and two daughters. Apart from his continuing studies in the field of political science, he has a particular interest in the music of Richard Wagner. Education: University of Leeds (BA, PGCE); University of London (AcDipEd, MA); University of Birmingham (PhD). Brian Sherratt (educator) Dr Brian Sherratt is a political science researcher with a particular interest in Whitehall bureaucracy and the role of the permanent secretary. Formerly he was Headmaster (1984–2005) of Great Barr School a secondary school on Aldridge Road in Great Barr, Birmingham, England for children aged 11 to 19. During his time as Headmaster, Great Barr was the"
"used by government and the public policy arena as an economic performance indicator. Leigh Pomlett (President) - CEVA Group Rebecca Jenkins (Vice President) - Greater Than Jon Moxon (Honorary Treasurer) - Palmer and Harvey Kevin Appleton - Horizon Platforms Ltd Ray Ashworth - DAF Trucks Vincent Brickley - Tandem Transport Service Andrew Haines - Tate & Lyle Graham Roberts - Hellenic Carriers Ian Stansfield - Asda Logistics Services and Supply Chain Ian Veitch - Yusen Logistics (Europe) BV Laura Thomas - Birketts LLP Perry Watts - DHL Supply Chain David Wells - Freight Transport Association John Williams - Maritime Transport"
"it is officially non-partisan. Arthur C. Brooks has served as president of AEI since January 2009. AEI current scholars include Kevin Hassett, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Michael Barone, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jonah Goldberg, Phil Gramm, Glenn Hubbard, Frederick Kagan, Leon Kass, Jon Kyl, Charles Murray, Norman Ornstein, Mark J. Perry, Danielle Pletka, Michael Rubin, Gary Schmitt, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jim Talent, Peter J. Wallison, Michael R. Strain, Bill Lenner, and W. Bradford Wilcox. Former AEI scholars or affiliates notably include President Gerald Ford, William J. Baroody Jr., William J. Baroody Sr., Robert Bork, Arthur F. Burns, Ronald Coase, Dinesh D'Souza, Alfred de"
"Bob Geldof, Bono and Rudolph Giuliani, while Arsène Wenger and Gérard Houllier are honorary OBEs. Honorary knighthoods arise from Orders of Chivalry rather than as Knights Bachelor as the latter confers no postnominal letters. Recipients of honorary awards who later become subjects of Her Majesty may apply to convert their awards to substantive ones. Examples of this are Marjorie Scardino, American CEO of Pearson PLC, and Yehudi Menuhin, the American-born violinist and conductor. They were granted an honorary damehood and knighthood respectively while still American citizens, and converted them to substantive awards after they assumed British nationality, becoming Dame Marjorie"
"and Dominic Grieve. Past presidents of OUCA include Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, Jonathan Aitken, William Rees-Mogg, Daniel Hannan and Nick Robinson. Former OUCA committee members or officers include Theresa May, Sir George Young, Ann Widdecombe, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Earl of Dartmouth. Former Labour ministers Ed Balls and Chris Bryant are also OUCA alumni. OUCA is run by its officers and committee, who are elected on a termly basis. The association has six Senior Officers, namely the President, the President-elect, the Treasurer, the Treasurer-elect, the Secretary, and the Political Officer, who chairs Port & Policy each week and is also"
"Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, Jeannie Drake CBE, Joel Edwards, Mike Smith, Professor Kay Hampton, Francesca Klug, Sir Bert Massie CBE, Ziauddin Sardar, Ben Summerskill and Dr Neil Wooding. Nicola Brewer, the first chief executive (and ex officio Commissioner), returned to the diplomatic service. Six staff were sacked by email on 9 February 2017 and given a day to clear their desks. Since then another two staff have been dismissed and two Directors are serving their notice. Another member of staff is still at risk of dismissal. Those sacked on 9 February had payment in lieu of notice (PILON) which workers"
"such as the equivalent position Lord President of the Council, is in the United Kingdom. The position has at times been held by persons who did not hold a Ministerial portfolio—such as Enid Lyons (1949–1951) in the Fourth Menzies Ministry and James Killen (1982–1983) in the Third Fraser Ministry. A small Department of the Vice-President of the Executive Council existed from 22 March to 31 May 1971, during the prime ministership of William McMahon. It was administered by Alan Hulme, who was also Postmaster-General. The department was recreated in 1982 and James Killen was controversially appointed to administer the office."